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Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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Messiah complex
Rant: I have made a solemn vow never to call or patronize a business that reads a phone number three times on the radio. I know, they’ve made studies but it still irritates me. In Washington, radio station WMAL used to close every comment or announcement by saying “WMAL, depend on it.” I learned to anticipate that and punched the button before they said it. I often forgot to return.
Rave: Elvera bought gasoline for 3.499 in Greenville, SC., It’s $3.619 at BP here.
Rant: Fay is dropping all her rain in Florida and we ain’t getting none. Maybe next week. Can you imagine hoping for a hurricane?
Rant: I have made a solemn vow never to call or patronize a business that reads a phone number three times on the radio. I know, they’ve made studies but it still irritates me. In Washington, radio station WMAL used to close every comment or announcement by saying “WMAL, depend on it.” I learned to anticipate that and punched the button before they said it. I often forgot to return.
Rave: Elvera bought gasoline for 3.499 in Greenville, SC., It’s $3.619 at BP here.
Rant: Faye is dropping all her rain in Florida and we ain’t getting none. Imagine hoping for a hurricane.
(You’re welcome.)
Rave: Gas stations out in the suburbs are having price wars, so I filled up at 3.199 Wednesday–a full 20% cheaper than the high of a month ago.
Rant: that #1 is a rave instead of a rant. (And it’s still above $3.50 overall in this area.)
Rave: that I’m close enough to nearly everything to walk. I just got back from driving my car to get an oil change, and I walked home with Misten. When they call me this afternoon, I’ll walk back over and pick it up. (It will be too hot for Misten to accompany me then.)
Rave: I’m caught up on work, pretty much the first time in a month.
Rant: That means I have no further excuse not to declutter.
Rave: My loved one with cancer (in treatment in Mexico) is doing better this week than last week. (Last week her husband reported incredible pain.)
Rant: The clinic doctor told her husband, “She’ll get better. She’s doing all the right things.” Since she has been doing “all the right things” for three years and it still progressed to stage four cancer, it’s a little hard to believe such a doctor isn’t a quack.
Rave: Thank God for this virtual community (even the atheists, who are voluntarily hanging out with Christians).
KBells - I’m sorry to hear of your aunt’s passing.
Rave! I was able to skip reading troll comments this week. It cut time wasting and upped my enjoyment.
Rant: I wasn’t able to skip reading Bob Buckles comments!
Rave! Thank you, Luke. I do read your comments. You and I just don’t always agree, but I need to understand you side better. You don’t go on and on and on and…
Rave! We received a large donation for our rice project. Now we’ll be able to buy a 100lb bag of rice for every family in our village and also one for each of our employees. As more funds come in we will give to nearby villages.
Rave! We had a really good meeting in another village.
Rave! My niece found a great place for us to stay when we go to me nephew’s wedding in Seattle next summer.
Rave! Future co-workers were here to visit and were able to help out with a lot of things.
Rant! They have to go home and finish raising their support.
I don’t normally play in the R & R topic, but …
Rants - from last night:
My granddaughter (aged 2) broke her arm
then
My mother-in-law had a heart attack
then
My duaghter’s good friend lost her mother (long battle with cancer)
What a rotten day.
RANT! No Olympic Basketball in primetime! I do NOT want to see Chinese divers performing identical perfect dives!
RAVE! I have an excellent group of 8th graders this year.
Rant: While this blog does not allow posters to make personal attacks on each other [a very good thing], we are being subjected to more and more PERSONAL attacks on presidential candidates every day. I have seen some topics on which I normally would have posted, but didn’t even open to read because there was no doubt in my mind about the sort of nasty comments that would appear there.
I think it’s perfectly fine to comment on disagreement with a candidates position on the issues, but the personal attacks day after day are, to say the least, tiresome.
My sympathy to you, KBells and KRM.
RANT
“A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.”
RAVE
You knew it was Diebold, now known as Premier Election Solutions — and they donate to the GOP.
I got here just in time to see if a post could be made past 3 pm.
Llama, if you say the sun shines by the light of the moon, she couldn’t even get into Clemson.
RAVE
According to President Bush and Dick Cheney, John McCain was NEVER tortured during his stay as a POW.
Did you know John McCain was a POW?
Llama, please tell me you’re joking about writing your daughter’s essay(s).
RANT
John McSame is trying to keep my guy, Bob Barr, off the ballot in PA! Of all the low-down dirty rotten things to do. It figures.
RAVE :- )
Barr pointed out that McCain himself fought similar attempts to force him from the New York ballot in 2000, and pulled out a quote that the Republican used eight years ago:
“Let’s not have the kind of Stalinist politics that the state of New York, the Republican Party, has been practicing.” - John McSame
“I got here just in time to see if a post could be made past 3 pm.”
As an integral part of the McCain Action Team, I am hear to inform you that the move to the McCain Campaign servers has been rockier than anticipated. The phone guy is working to bring a phone line in as I type. (I’m stealing wireless from the neighbors to send this. John thinks I’m a sorcerer sending messages through air.
)
Cheryl, Llama, It’s been so long ago that I barely remember, but the first assignment in our English 101 (It was English 11 back then.) on the first day in class was to write an essay on a given subject; in class. I suspect the professor wanted to check us out.